Overview

We are pleased to announce registrations are now open for ASCI 2019 Supply Chain Leaders Summit, developed by Akolade in partnership with the Australasian Supply Chain Institute (ASCI).

This Australasian peak gathering for supply chain professionals will bring together local and international leaders in the ongoing goal of professionalising the field of supply chain management.

High quality learning opportunities will come to the fore over the 2 days, with a comprehensive 3 streamed conference program with 50+ practical case study, expert insight and interactive discussion sessions led by local and international supply chain leaders from a broad range of industries. The program also ties in to ASCI’s accreditation scheme, offering up to 20 CPD points to delegates.

Unparalleled networking with over 200 senior supply chain professionals will also be available throughout our conference breaks, official networking reception and breakfast networking sessions.

Professional development will also offered through in-depth workshops and the popular ASCI Leadership Challenge – offering attendees the chance to really test their supply chain management prowess through this simulated supply chain game, with lots of twists and surprises and the chance to win the esteemed Challenge Cup.

Why attend:

Hear insights on how to enhance your organisation’s supply chain excellence from thought leaders across a broad range of industries

Take part in interactive supply chain leadership focussed discussions in our high level conference program

Attend the ASCI2019 conference and contribute 20 ASCI CPD points towards your compulsory 75 points
over 3 years. This conference can also be used to go towards APICS certification maintenance, points will be allocated at APICS discretion.

Henry Brunekreef

Henry Brunekreef is a Senior Manager with nearly 20 years of industry and consultancy expertise in leading organisations to operations excellence, with extensive domestic and international experience in all aspects of Supply Chain, Customer Service, Logistics and Project / Change Management. First-class strategic thinking, networking and interpersonal skills allow him to create high performing teams and drive necessary change. Is result driven whilst constantly focusing on customer requirements.

John Marson

ASCI Accreditation Officer

A.L.T. Limited, APICS, The Fresh Connection

John Marson’s qualifications range from chemical engineering, through to supply chain and coaching, mentoring and industrial psychology. He has a "string of qualifications" because of his never-ending passion for understanding and learning about business. He enjoys sharing and guiding others and seeing them achieve, on their journey to successfully implement change.
He is a Master Instructor for the APICS Certifications CSCP and CPIM, and the only APICS Master Instructor, in Asia Pacific, for training other instructors. In addition, he is a registered instructor for CLTD and SCOR, as well as a licensed facilitator for The Fresh Connection and The Cool Connection (experiential training using online business simulations).
John Marson has been implementing S&OP since 1993, which is approached quite differently in the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise model, developed by the Demand Driven Institute, with which John has a long association and is a registered instructor for their Demand Driven Leader and Demand Driven Planner workshops.
He has extensive management and consulting experience in a wide range of organisations and industries globally. He has held senior management positions with multi-national companies such as Mars in the UK and Unilever in South Africa and was an associate director in consulting firms, PwC (South Africa) and KPMG (New Zealand).

Laynie Kelly

ASCI Director and Marketing Manager ASIA Pacific

IPTOR

An accomplished marketing and communications executive and advisor with more than 20 years corporate development experience in the technology, food & beverage, automotive and media sectors, managing sales and creative project teams.
Currently, Laynie is the Marketing Manager Asia Pacific for a leading European provider of distribution management software for Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverage, Automotive Aftermarket, Publishing, Wholesale Distribution and 3PL industries.
Laynie is also the founder of the Marketing Muscle consultancy. Why that name? Because she loves both Marketing and Bodybuilding. She is a fighter against mediocrity in marketing, branding tactics, and sales performance, abhors waste and overpriced weak strategies. Creativity without responsibility and function is art, not advertising. the Marketing Muscle branding firm helps businesses and thought leaders achieve branding clarity on their mission and purpose, and increase their marketing performance. Laynie has built a solid foundation of clients through her branding and common sense services. Laynie specialises in applying her expertise and market knowledge to consistently exceed the marketing performance of her clients.

Andrew Hill

Head of Supply Planning

Brightstar Australia

Andrew Hill is the Head of Supply Plannng for Brightstar Australia. Brightstar simplifies the wireless world, making mobile technology
accessible to everyone. The company works with carrier, retail and enterprise customers across 70 countries, touching every stage of a
device’s lifecycle, from when it’s manufactured to the moment it’s time to trade it in and re-market it.

Penny Bell

ASCI Director and Supply Chain Director, Medical Devices, ANZ

ASCI Director

Highly effective strategic supply chain executive, with well-developed general management competencies who focuses organisations on their strategic direction, challenges the status quo through continuous improvement initiatives, guides transformational change programs and identifies and develops high performing talent.
As a leader of business transformation and organisational change, have delivered superior operational performance and optimised business outcomes in challenging environments. Engender a collaborative approach between business functions to reduce costs while increasing flexibility and responsiveness.
Drive continuous improvement, engender collaboration with customers, suppliers, business partners, and trusted advisors and have turned around under-performing teams and supply chain functions.

Pieter Nagel

CEO

ASCI

Dr Nagel has spent his whole working career of more than 30-years, in the Supply Chain domain. He has achieved a dynamic balance between corporate, consulting and academic positions and has always endeavoured to advance the logistics profession. He developed an international reputation as a leader in Supply Chain Strategy.
Throughout his extensive career, he has amassed substantial global experience in the corporate, consulting and academic logistics environments. His experience has given strong legitimacy to the development of his vision for logistics to be a recognised profession rather than just a view on a collection of operational aspects. He has undertaken strategic global projects in all three arenas and has worked on all major continents providing logistics expertise to the petrochemical, defence, banking and finance and retail sectors. Key among his significant achievements has been his pivotal role in the establishment of three key university research and learning institutes. These entities continue to contribute significantly to the development of Logistics and all still operate successfully. He identifies the global re-structure of the logistics of a petrochemical company as one of his most satisfying corporate achievements.

Clint Bertenshaw

Senior Operations Officer

Australasian Supply Chain Institute

An MBA graduate of Macquarie Graduate School of Management, with over 10 years Learning and Development consulting, project management, facilitation and program development experience across telecommunications, customers service, IT and Supply Chain Management.
Currently Clint is the Senior Operations Officer for the Australasian Supply Chain Institute where he manages the implementation and execution of the organisation's strategies and initiatives to drive member engagement, deliver on financial objectives and build on partner and vendor relations.
As an avid technology enthusiast he is always looking for new and innovative ways to optimise processes through technology.

Platinum sponsor

GRA is Australia’s premier supply chain consulting firm specialising in supply chain strategy, planning and execution.
We offer consulting, professional services, supply chain systems, training & education and benchmarking across a broad range of industries.
Over the last two decades we have worked with more than 200 companies, identifying savings in excess of ten billion dollars. Our mission is to
improve the competitiveness of the Australian supply chain industry. What drives us is turning our clients’ supply chains into a competitive
advantage. Typical benefits for our clients include: 20-40% inventory investment reduction, increased service levels ranging up to 99.9%,
10%-15% reduction in supply chain operating costs, 5%-20% spend management savings, the ability to fund business initiatives from operating cash
flow (OCF) improvements,
improved return on capital employed (ROCE) AND a minimum 3:1 ROI (10:1 to 30:1 typical). http://www.gra.net.au/

Advisory partner

At Deloitte, we are guided by a common purpose: To make an impact that matters.
Our Purpose defines who we are and why we exist. It holds true across our entire network, transcending the everyday and uniting our 264,000 practitioners, across 150 countries and 26 sectors. Learn how Deloitte achieves this at www.deloitte.com.
About Deloitte Operations and Supply Chain Consulting
Our globally recognized Operations and Supply Chain Consulting practices specialise in turning strategies into measurable and
sustained results utilising comprehensive risk identification and management techniques. We work with Operations executives and their teams
helping them to implement their corporate strategy and transform their core business and operations so they can prepare for growth whilst embracing
the digital agenda and maximizing operational efficiency. Our Supply Chain practice focuses on delivering strategy driven value that optimises the
networked supply chain and integrates advanced digital technologies, visualisation techniques andcapability uplift resulting in long term sustainable
improvements.
For more information, please visit our web site
at www2.deloitte.com/supply-chain

Content partner

Lexian Solutions Pty Ltd (‘Lexian’) was established in 2000 as a Centre of Excellence in Supply Chain Management. Lexian is a privately
owned Australian company offering a wide range of technology and supply chain management consulting services. Our team of experienced specialists
utilises a diverse range of methodologies and leading edge software technologies from LLamasoft Inc. focussed on delivering implementable supply chain
solutions to organisations and major events across the globe. Lexian is a leading user of supply chain optimisation software and can sell, install and
provide comprehensive
local support to the LLamasoft (formerly Barloworld SCS) inventory methodology and software known as Optimiza.

Exhibitor

For 25 years we have earned a reputation for building technology solutions that solve the most complex business problems in supply chain,
inventory and now omni-channel retail fulfilment.

25+ year heritage as a world-class supply chain solutions company

9 consecutive years ranked as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Warehouse Management Systems

Order Management solution and real time retail applications named leader in the latest Forrester Wave ™ Omnichannel Order Management report

16 of the top 20 apparel retailers use our software solutions

Silver sponsor

Chainalytics’ offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Bangalore, Denver, Helsinki, Milan, Minneapolis, Singapore, and Sydney demonstrate Chainalytics’ global
mix of thinkers,
planners and doers, each possessing not only global but deep regional expertise. And many Chainalytics experts work across disciplines–from
transportation, packaging optimization and supply chain design, network optimisation and operations to integrated demand and supply planning, S&OP,
and sourcing. This flexibility provides client teams the insights and solutions they need to adapt to the most complex supply chain challenges. We’re
known for using:

Data and supply chain intelligence to drive decisions and outcomes for clients. Many of our clients rely on accurate data and models from the
Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC) and Demand Planning Intelligence Consortium (DPIC) to make accurate business decisions.
Membership within these communities allows executives to stay up-to-date on industry trends and market intelligence.

A unique approach combining proven methodologies with perpetual learning. Chainalytics’ practitioners draw from both the knowledge behind
hundreds of Chainalytics client engagements as well as cutting-edge supply chain practices.

Supported by

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Join an elite group of global management accountants.

Become a CGMA designation holder

Management accountants analyse information to advise strategy and drive sustainable business success. Anyone can study the CIMA qualification,
whether they’re new to finance and business or an experienced professional.

What's CIMA and CGMA?

We’re the world’s largest professional body of management accountants, with the most useful accounting qualification for a career in business. By studying with CIMA, you’ll develop the critical knowledge and skills that employers are looking for and be ready to work in any business – public or private, big or small,
all around the world. CGMA is our coveted designation that identifies you as a Chartered Global Management Accountant.

Supported by

Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association, WISTA is the international network for women in shipping, trade and supporting industries and serves as a connector for more than 3,000 female professionals in 40 countries.
WISTA Australia was established in 2011 and has been growing rapidly ever since. We are active in QLD, NSW, VIC and WA where we hold regular educational, networking, professional and personal development events.
Our membership has great diversity across the broader maritime industry, trades and professions, and includes seafaring women as well as portside, logistics and trading professionals and women in support function roles. We bring together women new to the industry and women with decades of experience for a great mix of knowledge, mentoring, networking and platform for sharing interests and ideas

Silver sponsor

Logility provides supply chain optimization and advanced retail planning solutions that make “planning optimized” a reality. A pioneer of collaborative supply chain technology, Logility introduced its first solution to the market in 1996. Since that time and more than 1,300 customers later, Logility’s planning solutions leverage in-memory processing, algorithmic planning and machine learning to drive an intelligent response. Today Logility Voyager Solutions feature advanced analytics with continuous planning capabilities that help our customers make smart supply chain decisions – fast!

Exhibitor

DSI is the Digital Supply Chain Platform™ company that creates mobile-first and cloud supply chain solutions for the digital economy. Our easily personalized apps optimize inventory visibility and execution across the extended supply chain. DSI’s proven integration to backend systems increases business agility from the warehouse to the field. Visit www.dsiglobal.com to learn more.

Networking partner

At Anaplan, our aim is to make the world better by connecting organizations and people, so business leaders can make better-informed decisions.
Recognised across five separate Gartner Magic Quadrants, the Anaplan platform offers a new approach to planning. To enable collaboration, the platform was built in the cloud, for the cloud. To address exploding data volume and variety, including data from unstructured and online sources, it leverages standards-based data integration that can bring in data from any source.
Anaplan is the leader in Connected Planning. We provide solutions to create the dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent plans businesses need to win.
Large financial institutions worldwide use Anaplan’s purpose-built software connecting the people and data required for trusted plans that drive business success. Based in San Francisco, we are a privately-held growth company
with 18 offices, 150 expert partners, and more than 900 customers worldwide. To learn more, visit anaplan.com.

Patrick Vialle

Supply Chain Transformation Manager

Parmalat

Patrick is the Supply Chain Transformation Manager for Parmalat Australia (Lactalis group). The Transformation Project Team provides leadership in achieving Parmalat’s business objectives through effective management and execution of supply chain Transformation Projects, best practice deployment and related supply chain activities. Patrick has over 25 years of hands-on experience in Supply Chain , with companies like Kraft, Nestlé, or Lactalis. Jobs have ranged from Contract packing management in France for Kraft, Demand & Supply Planning for Nestlé PetCare in Italy, Supply Chain Manager for Nestlé zone AOA and later in New Caledonia, to current role as Supply Chain Transformation manager for Parmalat .
Patrick’s area of expertise includes Demand Management, Project leadership, Process improvement and S&OP implementation.
Patrick is a regular speaker on supply chain issues in forums as well as at the University of QLD (UQ) and at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

Carter McNabb

Partner

GRA

Carter is a founding Partner of GRA, Australia’s premier supply chain consulting firm specialising in supply chain strategy, planning and execution. Over its 20 year history, GRA has helped 200+ organisations across multiple industries identify combined savings of more than 10 billion dollars. GRA is focussed on practical results delivery, with a mission to turn clients’ supply chains into a competitive advantage. Carter has over 20 years of international supply chain advisory and transformation experience and taught at the Masters level within Monash University's Logistics & Supply Chain Management Program. With a series of published articles and white papers, press quotes and frequent speaking engagements, Carter is a recognised expert in the field. Importantly, he brings a healthy blend of theory and practical, proven experience to the subject of supply chain management.

Silver sponsor

JDA Software is the leading supply chain software provider powering today’s digital transformations.
We help companies optimize delivery to customers by enabling them to predict and shape demand, fulfill faster and more intelligently,
and improve customer experiences and loyalty. More than 4,000 global customers use our unmatched end-to-end software and SaaS solutions to
unify and shorten their supply chains, increase speed of execution, and profitably deliver to their customers. Our world-class client roster
includes 76 of the top 100 retailers,
77 of the top 100 consumer goods companies, and 8 of the top 10 global 3PLs. Running JDA, you can plan to deliver. www.jda.com

Silver sponsor

CBRE is Australia's largest commercial real estate services company providing solutions to property owners, investors and occupiers. With 115 dedicated industrial and logistics specialists in the Pacific Region they transact 2.75 Million square meters of logistics focused property annually. That’s just over 10,000 sqm per day.

In support of their clients industrial and logistics property needs, a global supply chain advisory practice was established. As a global practice, dedicated supply chain experts are in place in the US, Europe and Asia as well as the Pacific team based in Australia.

The supply chain advisory practice delivers business specific outcomes for clients that include strategic property solutions. Functional expertise in supply chain strategy, network design, facility design and operations optimisation deliver integrated solutions for clients capturing efficiencies and savings in the supply chain as well as the property and infrastructure sectors.